Partially modelled 3D laser scan of c 8th Century stone slab - Marigold decoration in lower right

Partially modelled 3D laser scan of c 8th Century stone slab - Marigold decoration in lower right
Marigold stone slab, from Tullylease in North Cork, Ireland, a partially modelled 3D laser scan, screenshot from Rapidform Software shows damage and flaking to the surface of the stone.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Policy Document on the Open Access Agenda - Arcadia.org.uk

This is a brilliant, comprehensive document detailing the scholarly and societal need for an urgent implementation of the open access agenda. Click here for the link to the document.

Knowledge shared online

After the stimulating discussion and debate at last Friday's Honest to Blog, organised by Pue's Occurrences, and having had many discussions about the relative merits of social media, I took the plunge in to the twitterverse tonight.

And I found a lively, stimulating online debate amongst fellow scholars about what is happening at Glasgow at present and also a host of useful links and online discussions useful to my own interests. Paperless Archaeology is one at the Digital Classicist list.

I should have known that epigraphers would be ahead of the crowd with new media.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Honest to Blog - A Symposium on Web Legitimacy


The second symposium - under the auspices of Pue's Occurrences - is being held in TCD this Friday 4th March. It promises to be a wide ranging discussion of the Irish blogosphere.